My overall strategy was to group every city at a certain hub to then connect those hubs over more long-distance routes, thus transferring people across the globe. It turned out to be quite successful as, in the end, our leaderboard finish was… #690. Nice.
» My hubs in Africa were:
Bamako (Mali), Cairo (Egypt), Cape Town (South Africa), Nairobi (Kenya), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Tripoli (Libya).
» My hubs in Asia were:
Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing, Guangzhou (both China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Mumbai, New Delhi (both India), Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Teheran (Iran).
» My hubs in Europe were:
Berlin (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyiv (Ukraine), London ...